[Tagging] Reviewing the use of addr:housename

[Serge Wroclawski]

I think there's an excellent point which is being danced around, which
is that there's a conflation between a building's name and the
addr:housename.

Perhaps there's a call for a building name tag which may or may not be
the addr:housename tag?

- Serge

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Fernando Trebien
<fernando.trebien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reading from the wiki: "This is sometimes used in some countries like
> England instead of [1] (or in addition to [2]) a house number."
>
> From that, I originally understood that one would use housename:
> [1] when a house number does not apply (when houses are identified by
> names/non-numeric codes, not by pure numbers)
> [2] as a generic field for additional addressing information (mostly
> as a substitute to addr:door and addr:unit, which never really took
> off despite being approved for 3 years now; this interpretation may be
> incorrect though)
>
> However, if you have a building (even building=house) with a name, you
> would have building=*+name=[building name], right?
>
> In Brazil some people have suggested that one would use addr:housename
> for a building's name when the element which is a building is also an
> amenity (e.g. building=yes+amenity=police), in which case the name tag
> would refer to the amenity, not to the building. I don't think this is
> the intended usage of name and addr:housename, but let me know if I'm
> wrong.
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Hain
> <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> The uses of the tag addr:housename in the database[1] does not match
>> documentation[2] well. A high prroportion of uses are accidental; there were
>> some bug reports[3][4] against iD, which used to have a housename box at the
>> beginning of every point for entering addresses, pointing out doubtful use
>> by new mappers. The top 100 values of the tag tell their own story.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>>
>> [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Ahousename#values
>> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr
>> [3] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/1525
>> [4] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2124
>>
>> Bloc                       1 265
>> (empty string)             531
>> 1                          472
>> bloc                       385
>> 2                          379
>> 3                          373
>> 4                          335
>> 5                          293
>> 6                          279
>> 7                          269
>> 9                          263
>> 8                          258
>> 10                         240
>> 12                         224
>> 11                         211
>> edificio                   209
>> Mairie                     206
>> 16                         202
>> 15                         192
>> 14                         189
>> 18                         189
>> s/n                        184
>> Edificio                   179
>> Heidehaus                  168
>> San Antonio II             164
>> 17                         164
>> Taman Cantek               159
>> Rathaus                    159
>> 20                         155
>> 19                         152
>> 13                         146
>> casă                       146
>> 22                         143
>> 21                         139
>> Berg Studentby             138
>> 25                         136
>> 26                         135
>> 23                         132
>> Rose Cottage               130
>> 24                         129
>> A                          124
>> 28                         122
>> Taman Ridgeview Phase 12   121
>> The Cottage                121
>> 27                         118
>> The Lodge                  116
>> B                          111
>> 31                         103
>> 29                         100
>> 32                         99
>> 30                         98
>> C                          98
>> Pfarrhaus                  96
>> Garages                    95
>> Arcaden                    94
>> Haus 1                     94
>> 33                         91
>> Nöhren Hof                 89
>> The Bungalow               88
>> 36                         88
>> Edificio␣                  88
>> Haus 2                     88
>> Vestergård                 87
>> Casă                       86
>> Lidl                       84
>> 34                         84
>> 35                         84
>> D                          84
>> Østergård                  83
>> 40                         80
>> 38                         77
>> Ældrecentret Kærgården     77
>> Магазин                    76
>> C.C. Condado Shopping      75
>> 37                         74
>> CSI Warehouse              73
>> Bahnhof                    73
>> 42                         71
>> 44                         71
>> Березники                  71
>> 39                         70
>> 45                         70
>> The Coach House            70
>> 41                         69
>> Stevnshøj                  69
>> Gemeindehaus               68
>> E                          68
>> McDonald's                 68
>> Golden Haven Memorial Park 66
>> Gemeindeamt                65
>> Unit 1                     65
>> 43                         64
>> Højgård                    64
>> The Vicarage               63
>> Makado                     63
>> 46                         62
>> Top Center                 62
>> Netto                      62
>> Møllebækkollegiet          61
>> Garage                     61
>>
>>
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